Sentences with phrase «about achieving the emission reductions»

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«Compared to what the car industry has achieved — about 30 per cent reduction in CO2 since 2000 — the oil industry hasn't really played its part yet in reducing emissions.

At present this would amount to about ~ 4.5 % of the global GDP, ($ 69,000 billion) to achieve a reduction in temperature for the whole World of 0.11 °C about 1/10 degree Centigrade, on the basis that all future CO2 emissions were eliminated.»

And, according to the report, California is already on the way to the massive emissions reductions: «California can achieve emissions roughly 60 percent below 1990 levels with technology we largely know about today if such technology is rapidly deployed at rates that are aggressive but feasible.»

We say this to make the point that on the eve of Paris, the United States is achieving the kinds of emissions reductions everyone else is just talking about.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

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In these articles extraordinary admissions are noted from the states leaders about the complete lack of knowledge, expertise and experience of the state government needed to achieve these escalated emissions goals demonstrating that these leaders are cavalierly plunging ahead with SB 32 politically driven emissions reduction mandates:

The above illustration, following the assumptions about what equity requires made by the authors of the report about how to determine US emissions reductions obligations, leads to the conclusion not only does the United States need to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020, the US must reduce its emissions by -141 % from 1990 levels by 2025.

with its highly optimistic assumptions about the future availability of renewables, nuclear, and CCS, the mid-century carbon emission reduction goal could only be achieved if the annual growth in GDP per capita between now and 2050 were to slow to a rate of 1 % per year.

Along this line there are several issues in particular about which greater awareness is needed including greater public understanding of the ethical implications of any nation's ghg emissions reduction commitment in regard to an atmospheric stabilization goal the commitment is seeking to achieve and the coherence or lack there of the national commitment to an acceptable equity framework.

Now what that means is not to be pessimistic in the long term about our ability to reduce emissions from agriculture, just that it's going to be slower and harder to actually achieve deep reductions in the sector over the next 50 or 100 years.

Achieving the level of emissions reduction needed to avoid the worst consequences of climate change means we have to start making the right choices about our future energy system now.

The report also identifies that if the least efficient 500 TWh of power generation in China's national coal fleet were to be upgraded to the same technology used at Zhoushan Unit 4, this could reduce China's CO2 by about 850 million tonnes each year and it would achieve this reduction at a much lower cost than any other equivalent, scalable, emission reduction strategy currently available in China.

That is, we have a better idea about how much we want to reduce greenhouse emissions than we do about what it would cost to achieve those reductions, so therefore an absolute limit on emissions is better than a fixed price on emissions.

If we act today to achieve the temperature and emissions reductions goals outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement, and succeed in slowing the acceleration of sea level rise, about 380 communities could avoid chronic inundation this century.

Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, spoke about some of the challenges and opportunities of the project at the company's annual Milestone Summit, and highlighted the importance of systems thinking in achieving groundbreaking emissions reductions.

The capital cost for these options (to achieve the same emissions reductions) would be about: $ 100 billion for nuclear $ 160 billion for hydro $ 480 billion for wind (more than this if we add the cost of transmission) Using A$ from Table 5.2.2.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

Provinces still heavily reliant on coal would be allowed some flexibility if similar emissions reductions can be achieved elsewhere, or if they get serious about Carbon Capture and Storage.

The Institute added that while concerns have been expressed about the trading scheme's impact on European business, trading was devised in response to businesses's desire for flexibility in achieving compliance and the scheme «should be judged in light of other options for emission reduction, not the status quo».

It is envisaged that what was not achieved during Cancun on Kyoto Protocol will be considered in Durban for 2nd commitment period about how to address deeper emission reduction targets by industrialized nations.